The Latin word for boy is
puer
Translations for boy and their definitions
| puer | |
| 1. n. a child; chit | |
| 2. n. a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (gloss, older than an infans but younger than an adulescens) | |
| 3. n. a male servant or page; slave | |
| 4. n. a bachelor | |
| 5. n. boyhood (ex: in puero, "in his boyhood" or "as a boy") |
| adulescens | |
| 1. adj. young, youthful | |
| 2. adj. minor (of two boys) | |
| 3. n. a youth, a youngster; a young man, a lad; a young lady, a young woman, a maiden (likely between ages 14-21) (gloss, older than a puer but younger than a iuvenis) |
| catulaster | |
| 1. n. boy, lad, stripling | |
| 2. n. young man |
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